Showing posts with label Atlanta Parks Department. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atlanta Parks Department. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2011

"You Can't Make an Omelette Without Breaking Eggs"

Master Planner Bob Hughes, explaining the plan to "restore" flood-prone Peachtree Creek by stripping its banks of natural vegetation and altering the channel. (This metaphor was originated by Maxmillian Robespierre in defense of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.)

Friday, June 24, 2011

Colors in the Park

Here are the new paint jobs in and around Memorial Park. 
These were originally natural green colors. 





This last one is the bridge railing on Northside Drive across from the Bobby Jones Golf Course.

(I think they were trying for a Giverny effect.)